1. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 SubmissionJae Seung Lee, ETRI Spec Framework Proposal: Selection of the AP for Scanning Date: 2012-03-02 Slide 1 March 2012

2. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission Abstract Scanning time is one of the major cause of the delay in initial Link Setup In active scanning, a STA transmits Probe Request frame in Broadcast, usually using wildcard SSID to find APs It can cause unnecessary packet exchange which increases the network traffic and causes link setup delay This proposal reduces the overhead of active scanning by providing precise selection mechanism of the AP s to respond with Probe Response Approach: –Add Exclusion List to the Probe Request frames to precisely limit the scope of APs or STAs that should transmit probe response Substring of the SSIDs or Mesh IDs can be used in the List to indicate the APs or STAs to be excluded Slide 2 March 2012 Jae Seung Lee, ETRI

3. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission Background This contribution is based on the following documents that have been presented at the last January 2012 IEEE 802.11 meeting –11-12/0059r1 Selection of the AP for Scanning –11-12/0060r0 Text for Selection of the AP for Scanning This contribution proposes text for TGai Specification Framework Document regarding scanning enhancement for fast network discovery Proposed Spec Framework text is included in the Straw Poll/Motion section at the end of this contribution Jae Seung Lee, ETRI Slide 3 March 2012

4. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission Conformance w/ Tgai PAR & 5C Conformance QuestionResponse Does the proposal degrade the security offered by Robust Security Network Association (RSNA) already defined in 802.11? No Does the proposal change the MAC SAP interface?No Does the proposal require or introduce a change to the 802.1 architecture?No Does the proposal introduce a change in the channel access mechanism?No Does the proposal introduce a change in the PHY?No Which of the following link set-up phases is addressed by the proposal? (1) AP Discovery (2) Network Discovery (3) Link (re-)establishment / exchange of security related messages (4) Higher layer aspects, e.g. IP address assignment 1 Slide 4 March 2012 Jae Seung Lee, ETRI

5. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission Selection of the AP to Scan – Background (1/3) To discover the AP to associate, a STA transmits Probe Request in Broadcast with wildcard SSID APs transmit Probe Response  too many probe responses AP 1AP 2AP 3AP 4AP n STA Probe Request on channel x (broadcast) Probe Response flooding Probe Response Slide 5 March 2012 Jae Seung Lee, ETRI

6. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission Selection of the AP to Scan – Background (2/3) In many cases, STA has prior knowledge on which APs it does not want to receive Probe Response from It is not necessary for a STA to receive Probe Response from APs deployed by specific Service Providers if the user does not subscribe to the Service Providers -Usually, specific substring is included in the SSID of such APs deployed by a specific Service Provider -There are many users who do not have any WiFi Subscription for paid WiFi services provided by Service Providers Slide 6 March 2012 Jae Seung Lee, ETRI

7. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission Selection of the AP to Scan – Background (3/3) Usually, it is not necessary for a STA to receive Probe Response from the APs whose SSID include “_nomap” -Google has announced a way for WiFi router owners to stop Google from including them in the company’s location database – by adding “_nomap” at the end of the SSID -It is highly probable that AP whose SSID contains substring “_nomap” is not a public AP  It will be beneficial if we can exclude such APs with specific known substrings from responding Probe Request Slide 7 March 2012 Jae Seung Lee, ETRI

8. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission Selection of the AP to Scan - Approach Exclusion List is added to the Probe Request frames to precisely limit the scope of APs or STAs that should transmit probe response frame Substring can be used in the List to indicate SSIDs or Mesh IDs helps to reduce the size of the Exclusion List Not necessary to include individual IDs in the Exclusion List Efficiently filter the APs with IDs with known substring  Exclusion List with substring capability can provide precise selection of the AP to transmit Probe Response frame Slide 8 March 2012 Jae Seung Lee, ETRI

9. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission Selection of the AP to Scan – Example (1/3) Example 1-1: Using existing active scanning method. The user does not know the SSID. He does not have any WiFi subscription, so he does not want to get response from APs deployed by Service Providers such as KT or SKT SKT0002 SKT0003 Xx_nomap Aa_nomap SKT0006 KT0002 KT0003 KT0004 KT0005 Bb_nomap KT0003 KT0004 KT0005 SKT_xy SKT_zz Hyatt_1 VeriLAN Hyatt_2 STA Probe Request (wildcard SSID) Too many Probe Response frames !! (Probe Responses from many APs are not helpful for association). Slide 9 March 2012 Home_nomap No subscription Private AP Jae Seung Lee, ETRI

10. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission Selection of the AP to Scan – Example (2/3) Example 1-2: Selection of the AP to respond using Exclusion List with substring. The user does not know the SSID. He does not have any WiFi subscription, so he does not want to get response from APs deployed by Service Providers such as KT or SKT  include Exclusion list containing substring KT and _nomap into the Probe Request  Do not need to list all the SSIDs to be filtered. Do not need to know full SSID to be filtered KT0002 KT0003 KT0004 KT0005 Bb_nomap KT0003 KT0004 KT0005 SKT_xy SKT_zz Hyatt_1 VeriLAN Hyatt_2 STA Probe Request (Exclusion List with SSID substring) Reduced Probe Responses x x x x x x x x x x Slide 10 SKT0002 SKT0003 Aa_nomap SKT0006 Home_nomap x x x x x x March 2012 Xx_nomap No subscription Private AP Jae Seung Lee, ETRI

11. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission Selection of the AP to Scan – Example (3/3) Example 2: Exclusion List with substring – using substring type information The user does not subscribe to KT but SKT SKT0002 SKT0003 SKT0004 SKT0005 SKT0006 SKT0001 KT0002 KT0003 KT0004 KT0005 KT0003 KT0004 KT0005 VeriLAN Hyatt_2 STA Slide 11 SKT000x SKT000z SKT000y Probe Request (ExclusionList with substring)  Add substring KT and indicate “starts with” in the substring type information (SKT is not filtered in this example) x x x x x x x March 2012 No subscription Aa_nomap Home_nomap x Private AP x Jae Seung Lee, ETRI

12. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission Exclusion List with substring capability Added to the Probe Request frames to precisely limit the scope of STAs to respond Specifies the set of STAs that should not transmit a response to a Probe Request frame If APs are selected by BSSID, SSID, SSID List, HESSID, or Mesh ID and if some of the selected APs are indicated by the lists in the Exclusion List, then they should not transmit a response to the Probe Request frame Substring can be used in the Exclusion List to indicate SSIDs or Mesh IDs Slide 12 March 2012 Jae Seung Lee, ETRI

13. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission May Include SSID List element, BSSID List element, MESHID List element, and HESSID List element Optionally included in the Probe Request frame Substrings can be used in SSID elements or MESHID elements - Interpretation of the strings are indicated in the SubstringInfo field Exclusion List element Octets: 1 1 1 variable Element IDLengthSubstringInfoSSID ListBSSID List MESHID List HESSID List Slide 13 March 2012 Jae Seung Lee, ETRI

14. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission Included in Exclusion List element Make it possible to indicate SSID or Mesh ID by their substrings Several substring type can be indicated (starts with, ends with,…) SubstringInfo field indicates whether the the strings contained in the SSID or Mesh ID elements included in the Exclusion List are substrings of the actual SSID or Mesh ID that indicates the STAs that should not respond with the Probe Request frame. The Substring Supported subfield: –Set to 1 if the STA supports the indication of substring of SSID or Mesh ID –Set to 0 if the STA does not support the indication of substring and if it is set to 0, the value of Substring Type is reserved. SubstringInfo field format Substring Supported Substring Type Reserved bits: 1 3 4 Slide 14 March 2012 Jae Seung Lee, ETRI

15. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission The Substring Type field indicates the type of substring used in the SSID or Mesh ID elements. Substring Type subfield ValueMeaning 0 Strings used in the SSID or Mesh ID elements in the Exclusion List are the actual SSIDs or Mesh IDs (not substring) 1 The actual SSIDs or Mesh IDs of the intended STAs are the SSIDs or Mesh IDs that start with, or end with, or contain the substrings specified in the SSID or Mesh ID elements in the Exclusion List. 2 The actual SSIDs or Mesh IDs of the intended STAs are the SSIDs or Mesh IDs that start with the substrings specified in the SSID or Mesh ID elements in the Exclusion List. 3 The actual SSIDs or Mesh IDs of the intended STAs are the SSIDs or Mesh IDs that end with the substrings specified in the SSID or Mesh ID elements in the Exclusion List. 4-7 Reserved Slide 15 March 2012 Jae Seung Lee, ETRI

16. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission Conclusion Scanning time is one of the major cause of the delay in initial Link Setup Legacy active scanning can cause unnecessary packet exchange which increases the network traffic and causes link setup delay In this proposal: –Exclusion List is added to the Probe Request frames to precisely limit the scope of APs or STAs that should transmit probe response frame –Use of substring in the Exclusion List to indicate SSIDs or Mesh IDs helps to reduce the size of the Exclusion List Not necessary to include individual IDs in the Exclusion List Provides flexible substring matching  helps to reduce the unnecessary exchange of Probe Request frame thus increasing the efficiency of the active scanning Slide 16 March 2012 Jae Seung Lee, ETRI

17. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission March 2012 Jae Seung Lee, ETRISlide 17 Straw Poll 1 Should the spec framework document be updated with the following text for Fast Network Discovery: –STA may include Exclusion List in the Probe Request frame that indicates the APs or STAs that should not transmit probe responses. Yes No Abstain

18. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission March 2012 Jae Seung Lee, ETRISlide 18Jae Seung Lee, ETRISlide 18 Straw Poll 2 Should the spec framework document be updated with the following text for Fast Network Discovery: –Substrings of SSIDs or Mesh IDs can be used in the Exclusion List to indicate the APs or STAs that should not transmit probe responses. Yes No Abstain

19. doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0263r1 Submission March 2012 Jae Seung Lee, ETRISlide 19 References 11-12/0059r1 Selection of the AP for Scanning 11-12/0060r0 Text for Selection of the AP for Scanning